Amanda-Users

Re: How to do differential backup with amanda?

2003-05-23 16:05:41
Subject: Re: How to do differential backup with amanda?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Wojciech Jedliczka <wj AT 3v DOT pl>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 17:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 9 May 2003 at 11:14pm, Wojciech Jedliczka wrote

> I have tried to use 'incronly' strategy to provide described above
> functionality
> and I noticed that Amanda stops at level 9. I need an 'incremental only
> forever'
> strategy for such purpose. In addition, when recovering I do not need a
> whole
> filesystem but chosen file/files only. So, every restore needs 1 or maximum
> 2 tapes only regardless of level's number. In fact, Amanda was not designed
> for such backup strategy and she must do a level 0 backup from time to time

Well, no "traditional" backup tool is designed for such a situation, 
really.  It seems to me that a quick script using find and tar would work 
quite well for this situation, though.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University